Re: Applications and Public Trust (was Re: Expansion of the IAHC)

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Simon Higgs wrote:

> I wrote privately to Perry saying:
          ^^^^^^^^^
>      "We have a major trust issue at stake here
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What an odd juxtaposition. 

>  - You're talking about the interpretation during the writing of a document
>    which was assumed to be "bleeding obvious", but WAS NOT committed to in
>    the final publication.

Higgs fails to realize that RFC's are not laws.

> Find me somewhere where IANA clarified all this during the "Newdom era"
> to your satisfaction. Where did they specifically say this only ever
> means ISO TLDs?

Pick up a copy of the NEWDOM mailing list archives from
http://www.memra.com/newdom.zip and the convenient msplit program
http://www.memra.com/msplit or http://www.memra.com/msplit.bas
and you can search it with your choice of tools to see who said what.

> Then they said, "if you want to apply for a TLD today (that's any type
> of TLD), here's what you do... send the .COM template to
> "hostmaster@internic.net" as spelled out in RFC1591."

This was part of a discussion thread and I remember people asking for
clarification. If you search the NEWDOM archive for "hostmaster" then you
should be able to find the thread.

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